Gifting items to Charity or Second Hand shops gives you a satisfactory feeling that the once treasured piece will find a new home. Better than it going to the rubbish landfill site. Although, buying something else to fill that space, kind of defeats the idea of having a clear out. I have known someone who has regretted giving away an item then spends days looking for a similar replacement!
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Sentimental Bric-a-Brac
I called him Grandad since he would come by and ask the same question.
‘Is it here, yet?’
Occasionally, I invited him in for tea and biscuits. He told me his wife brought it into the shop when she was angry with him, because he went fishing on their first anniversary. She passed recently, and he wants it back.
‘Someone will return it.’ He seemed convinced. ‘They always do.’
He would not say what it was. How was I to know?
‘Is it here yet?’
‘Maybe tomorrow.’
Now, I haven’t seen him for months.
Perhaps he found it at home.
James McEwan 